Looking for a fun dessert this Father’s Day? Perhaps a chocolate dessert on a lovely day? We love these easy to make BBQ Grill Cupcakes made with everyone’s favorite Betty Crocker Cake Mix and Icing!

BBQ Grill Cupcakes

Cupcakes are fun, individually wrapped treats we all know and love. We wanted to twist your typical cupcake for the BBQ grill. These make great desserts for picnic, Father’s Day, summer backyard events and more. Best of all, these cupcakes are easy, fun for little helpers, and will look like you slaved all day in the kitchen making them!

Fishing Cupcakes – Father’s Day Dessert

These Gone Fishing cupcakes require very little effort. Grab a box of cake mix or pick up unfrosted cupcakes from your local grocer. You will need blue frosting, Gummy Fish, Red Gumballs, Pull N’ Peel Licoriceand a few other ingredients to pull of these adorable summer cupcakes.

Frost cupcakes with the blue frosting with a smooth layer. Using a knife or offset spatula, touch the frosted cupcake and gently pull up so it creates a little peak to look like a water wave. Do this all over the top of each cupcake.

Melt the candy melts per package directions and dip each gumball until half covered. Shake off any excess and set the bobbers white side up on top of each cupcake. Put a redhot on the white chocolate on top of each bobber and let these set about 15 minutes so the chocolate hardens.

Take a half piece of licorice and tie the end on to the end of a pretzel stick. Press the other end of the pretzel into the cupcake so it sticks up in the air and the licorice hangs down like fishing line. Trim the licorice if it is too long. Repeat this for each cupcake.

Place a fish on each cupcake right in front of the licorice fishing line.

These very cute cupcakes would be great for a little fisherman’s party!

Fishing Cupcakes – Father’s Day Dessert

This fishing cupcakes make the perfect Father’s Day Dessert. They also can be used for a beach party.

Author:Ashley at Frugal Coupon Living

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Ingredients

8 Prepared Cupcakes, unfrosted

1 Container Aqua Blue Frosting

1 package Pull N’ Peel Licorice

Mini Pretzel Sticks

1 packages Gummy Fish

Large Red Gumballs

½ cup White Candy Melts

Redhots Candy Sprinkles

Instructions

Frost cupcakes with the blue frosting with a smooth layer. Using a knife or offset spatula, touch the frosted cupcake and gently pull up so it creates a little peak to look like a water wave. Do this all over the top of each cupcake.

Melt the candy melts per package directions and dip each gumball until half covered. Shake off any excess and set the bobbers white side up on top of each cupcake. Put a redhot on the white chocolate on top of each bobber and let these set about 15 minutes so the chocolate hardens.

Take a half piece of licorice and tie the end on to the end of a pretzel stick. Press the other end of the pretzel into the cupcake so it sticks up in the air and the licorice hangs down like fishing line. Trim the licorice if it is too long. Repeat this for each cupcake.

Place a fish on each cupcake right in front of the licorice fishing line.

These very cute cupcakes would be great for a little fisherman’s party!

We gathered some of the most adorable and creative dad gifts in these free Father’s Day printables. Gift ideas for the super hero dad, the golf lover, the grill master, and more.

Free Father’s Day Printables

What do you normally do for Father’s Day. Shopping for dad isn’t too hard but getting creative with the kids can sometimes get a bit difficult. We searched the web and some of our favorite blogs to find the most adorable Father’s Day Printables. From cards, to banners, to adorable and creative Father’s Day Gifts for dad, these ideas will simplify your life and time and allow you to have something memorable for a life time! Enjoy.

First up a gift basket. How fun is this World’s Greatest Pop gift basket printables. From push pops, to ring pops to soda pop, this basket is cute! | A Pumpkin and a Princess

If you hosting a party or just doing something fun within the home, print off this Donuts with Dad Invite. Some school host these events, so don’t forget to share with your child’s teacher! | Frugal Coupon Living

Making Cute Cupcakes For Kids with Fun Designs: Mom and Kids Bonding Time

If you are thinking of a fun way to spend time with your kids or planning to have a quality time with them on the weekend, then look no further. Nothing beats bonding with your children with a little baking fun. Not as complicated as making Easter cookies. Just making simple cupcakes so that the kids can join the fun.

Instead of laying around on the couch all day on movie marathons, doing something together in the kitchen is productive and really fun. You get to have your children learn a thing or two about baking and give them a sense of accomplishment once they see and taste the result of your teamwork.

For starters, I will give you two recipes for cupcakes. One is for oven cupcakes in which you can also use a convection oven, and one is for microwave cupcakes. And then, I’m going to provide you with instructions on how to decorate the cupcakes using fun ideas. Don’t worry, it wouldn’t be as hard as making a blueberry and oat cake. It is very easy to do.

Give your kids some tasks along the way and make sure that they are hands-on with the decorating. Don’t forget to give them pointers about safety and sanitation.

Easy oven cupcake recipe

Ingredients

250g butter, unsalted

250g sugar

250g flour (self-raising)

4 medium-sized eggs

4 tbsp. milk

1 pinch of salt

2 12-cup muffin tray lined with paper cupcake cases

Directions

Preheat the oven to 200°C

In a large bowl, put the butter in to beat until it softens. Add the flour, sugar, salt, milk, and eggs. If you want to make chocolate cupcakes, use two tablespoons less flour and replace it with two tablespoons of cocoa powder. Whisk the mixture until it is smooth.

Use a spoon or an ice cream scoop to put a portion of the mixture to the paper cases. Make sure to put just the right amount each case to fill all the 24 cases.

Place the cupcakes in the oven and bake. After fifteen minutes, swap their places and bake for another three to seven minutes or until the cupcakes have light golden color.

Take them out of the oven and let the tray cool for a few minutes. Then take the cupcakes to a wire rack to cool. Now they are ready for the decorations.

But before we go to decorating, I’ll give you the recipe for microwave oven cupcakes.

Easy microwave cupcake recipe

This cupcake version is easier and faster to do. The challenge here is to be successful in preventing the kids from eating the ingredients before the cupcake gets done. You will see why soon enough.

Ingredients

4 tablespoons of full-fat vanilla or chocolate ice cream, depending on your preference of flavor. (I told you it is going to be a challenge for the kids not to eat it up)

2 tablespoons of cake flour

1/8 teaspoon of baking powder

Silicone cupcake molds

Directions

For starters, be sure to use cake flour and not all-purpose flour. It makes the cupcake drier and have a bread-like texture rather than cake.

Put all the ingredients in a bowl and whisk it until the batter is smooth. Make sure that there are no chunks of flour visible in the batter. Put it in two medium-size or four small-size cupcake molds. Put them in the microwave about thirty seconds. Set aside to cool and be ready for the decorations.

Here comes the fun part! I have three kinds of fun decorations to do with your kids. If you want to look for more, you can search fun and easy ideas here.

Rainbow Decoration

Everyone loves rainbows! Especially kids. This is very easy and fun to do.

Ingredients

Your favorite frosting

Blue food color

Rainbow berry candy belt (like Airheads Xtremes)

Small white marshmallow (optional)

Directions

First, put a few drops of blue food coloring to your frost. Mix and add until it reaches a pale blue color. Apply it on the cupcake.

Bend a rainbow berry candy belt and stick the ends to the frosting. You can add small marshmallows as clouds to the part where the candy sticks.

Your rainbow cupcake is done.

Bunny Decoration

This cupcake topping is a bit more challenging than the first one, but cuter as well. This is good for Easter or for kiddos who just can’t get enough of our furry little friends.

Ingredients

White frosting

Brown M&M’s minis

White marshmallows

Pink decorating sugar or pink sprinkles

Pink ball sprinkle

Black licorice laces

Directions

Put the white frosting over the cupcake. This will be your canvas for the bunny face

For the ears, cut a marshmallow in half. Add the pink sugar or sprinkle on the center area of the cut part avoiding edges. Do this on both of the marshmallow halves. Place them on the top part of the cupcake where the ears should be.

For the eyes, use the brown M&M’s minis and put them where the eyes should be.

For the nose, put the pink ball sprinkle on where the nose should be.

Use the black licorice laces for the whiskers. Put three on each side.

Your bunny should be looking at you right now with its cute chocolate eyes.

Mustache Decoration

If you want to let your kids give their good old dad a treat for father’s day or for his birthday, then this is an easy and fun thing to give him.

You actually have three options here. You can use toothpicks and construction paper, fondant and icing writers, or chocolate molds.

Put the frosting on top of your cupcake. You don’t have to download the mustache mold if you’re going to use the chocolate mold. Just put the mustache mold directly on the frosting.

If you prefer to use sticks and paper, print out the mustache mold, and put it on the construction paper. Cut away the mustache and put it on one end of the stick with glue. Make sure that the end won’t stick out on top of the mustache. Stick it on the cupcake.

If you’re going to use fondant, get black and white ones. Make small round white ones with the same diameter as the cupcake. This will be your canvas for the mustache. Use the printable mold as a pattern for the mustache using the black fondant. Cut it out using a paring knife or a kitchen shear.

Wait till daddy sees your masterpiece.

There you have it. Two easy recipes for cupcakes, and three easy decorating tips for you to choose from. This will definitely make your weekends fun and exciting. If you know someone that needs this recipe, go ahead and like and share. What do you think? Feel free to comment below for any questions or suggestions.

Hi friends, I’m Susan from http://www.cookthestone.com. I spent most of my time in the kitchen to make tasty meals for my family. The feeling when your husband and your kids are full with food cooked by you is amazing. I understand and want to share my experience with you. Hope they can help in your daily life. I will very appreciate your encouragements in the comment section below. Thank you!

We love these Golf Donuts for Dad! We made an easy Father’s Day Dessert that is creative and fun and personalized just for dad. It’s a hole in one idea!

Golf Donuts for Dad | Father’s Day Dessert

Looking for a Hole in One idea this Father’s Day. We love to celebrate donuts for dad and thought this idea was so much fun! Create a mini golf course for your next donuts for dad event. We made ours with a silicone donut mold, some green frosting, candy shreds, and white Sixlets!

Father’s Day Crafts for Kids: Preschool, Elementary and More!

As a former teacher, it was always nice to contribute to the Father’s Day gift at the end of the year. It’s fun to be apart of a memory frozen in time. Either a hand print that will one day get larger, or a cute little face that will one day evolve, or a sweet little message that can be read over and over. When I recall my favorite gifts form my kids, it always one of these cute pieces of art. Below are some of the most perfect Father’s Day Crafts for Kids aged preschool to elementary school.

Have LEGOs laying around, doing this Building Memories with Dad Craft {Also use little LEGOs and a baby food jar!} It would look great on dad’s desk at work | The Seasoned Mom

The sweetest Handprint Baseball DIY gift for Dad. {There is also a touching little poem you can print to go along with it!} My husband would love this! | Sunny Day Family

Decorate the home with this tie-riffic Father’s Day Banner. Also attach little gift tag ties for a terrific dad! | Amanda’s Parties to Go

Have fun with this Dad Mad Lib for Father’s Day. This always end up so comical- kids say the funnest things! | Over the Big Moon

This is fun for the desk or garden, My Dad Rocks Paperweight. This could be cute in a garden too or on dad’s desk at work. | Cobwebs Cupcakes and Crayons (Post no longer working)

We also love this one using real rocks to create a My Dad Rocks frame craft. My daughter would have so much fun with this one! | Mommy Momment

To watch your little super hero grow, freeze their hand prints in time with these Super Hero Handprints for Father’s Day {She does not give directions on how to do this, I suggest placing a handprint on paper and grabbing a clip art of your super hero to paste on top of the print.} | Crafty Morning

Every king of the grill needs an Apron. Craft this Father’s Day Apron. Another idea is to add a set of hand prints every year! | Whimsical Kids Canvas

I feel like Tim the Toolman Taylor telling you “It’s Tool Time!” Print these free Tools for Dad! Maybe write sweet meessage on each of the tools. | Printables4Kids

Let dad SEE how wonderful he is this Father’s Day with these Father’s Day Glasses for Dad | Mr. Printable

Free Donuts with Dad Printable Invite

Looking for a fun way to celebrate dad? Donuts with Dad is always a fun and easy breakfast theme you can host at a preschool, church, and more. Have families donate donuts and bring these free and fun invites so dad can enjoy his special day with his little one. If dad is not available, also welcome grandfathers, uncles, special friends, neighbors and more!

Father’s Day Craft Ideas

A dad, a step-dad, a grandfather or another significant man. Whoever you are celebrating, whatever their tastes, we have some amazing Father’s Day Craft Ideas to help make someone feel extra special this Father’s Day. From the dad that loves ball, to the dad who is your favorite fixer upper, to a dad who is the ultimate griller, check out these DIY Father’s Day ideas for your favorite Dad!

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